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Telescope with Bay Area roots becomes part of project to scan the universe
An ambitious project to scan the universe has ties to the Bay Area.
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NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory begins capturing a ‘movie’ of the cosmos
Rubin’s 10-Year Legacy Survey of Space and Time will scan the night skies to create a time-lapse record of the Universe.
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Vera C. Rubin Observatory days away from launching decade-long sky survey
After years of construction and months of testing, the Chilean mountaintop telescope is nearly ready to begin the most ambitious astronomical survey ever attempted.
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How the Rubin Observatory maps the universe every night
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will run the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and build a 10-year time lapse of the entire Southern sky. Find out what goes into unlocking the cosmic data.
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Beyond Light: New Frontiers in the Oldest Science - Part 2
This century, astronomy will push beyond the confines of light and begin to detect new signals such as neutrinos, cosmic rays, and gravitational waves in multi-messenger astronomy
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Beyond Light: New Frontiers in the Oldest Science - Part 1
In the last post, we talked about astronomers pushing frontiers of knowledge. Gravitational waves represent perhaps the most peculiar frontier beyond light.
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Looking for Light from the Invisible
Several KIPAC members are running an experiment (LUX-ZEPLIN) almost a mile underground in South Dakota, looking for evidence of the invisible: dark matter!
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Resonating with Dark Matter with ADMX-VERA
The Universe has an invisible skeleton made of particles we can’t describe in our current theories, known only as dark matter.
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Single-electron Sensitive Readout / SiSeRO: A novel X-ray detector technology for future astronomy missions
X-ray astronomy unlocks a hidden universe of extreme events: from black holes and exploding stars to heated gas in galaxy clusters.
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Spotting the Universe’s oldest light from the Atacama Desert
The Simons Observatory, a cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment which will soon begin to map this ancient light with exquisite precision
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Latest measure of cosmic expansion hints that Universe is growing faster than expected
The universe is full of mysteries that are worthy of a few words of awe and joy.
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Detecting black hole gravitational atoms in the sky (with half-diamonds)
Atoms consist of nuclei and electrons; all have mass.
